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MARSHALL28 United States. Mar 12 2009 20:52. Posts 1904 | | |
So, writing is actually one of my strengths and it's helped me through a lot of issues in the past. I had stopped doing it for awhile and feel like it's something I need to get back to for my own good.
Ego has gotten me into a lot of trouble and made me look very foolish many times. Now that I'm a little older and (I won't say a little wiser because that's obviously not true) maybe a little less retarded, I'm giving poker another serious shot.
So I started back up w/ something like 100$ on Feb 1st and took it to the 10nl tables. I played 120k hands in February and I feel like I actually accomplished something. After spending a ton of time just watching videos and trying to take away at least one piece of information from each one I watched. If I can't explain to myself one thing I learned after watching a video, I'd have to say I wasted my time. Luckily I didn't have to play the 10nl and 25nl tables for long because a good friend of mine, Mitch Edz/Ruggedman loaned me 1k to play .25/.5, I made enough to pay him back in about 3 days. I finished February pretty strong with a bankroll of 3870. I felt pretty proud of that since it's more than I've won in any month probably over about the last half year playing poker. I logged 203 hours of playing time last month so my hourly was about 20 bucks, it's pennies compared to what I've made in the past, but I can't really find a reason to complain.
So far this month I've played strictly .5/1 and 1/2, I've had a ton of success in .5/1 but have been playing very poorly in 1/2. Regardless, I'm still up 3011 (minus $750 coaching payment to Jamie217) for the month and feel as if I'm finally starting to build some momentum. I think Jamie is an excellent coach and he's really making me feel like very soon I'm going to start to crack the 1/2 games and begin beating them as well.
I had been going through the motions for a long time, auto-piloting through life basically, it was pretty ugly. As I've been spending more time away from the game and thinking about it, I've begun to learn a lot of things I either wasn't looking for or thought I was too good to notice. One of those things is that even the .5/1 games online now are tougher than the 2/4 and 3/6 games were when I was beating them 16 months ago. Even many of the fish play a lot better. Their preflop stacking ranges actually seem like really good, I seem to never get it in good against them preflop. Anybody else notice them starting to c/jam sets and other big hands on the flop? or am I the only idiot that calls them when they do that?
Position seems even more important today than before. I guess many many fewer people were positionally aware than are today. I remember being able to 3bet anything playable from just about any spot in position and be able to show a profit. Now I have to get a lot trickier, 3betting a completely polar range when in UTG+1 and CO. Re-stealing a ton more in sb and bb vs btn/co opens. Deepstack play is way tougher because so many people are much better able to use position and 3betting to make my life miserable.
I've also found that bet sizing postflop in 3bet pots seems to be sososo key and it's the one thing I really need to work on the most. I feel like I've improved my preflop ranges a ton and that I'm playing pretty solid preflop poker for the most part, but my postflop play definitely needs a ton of improvement, these spots are what I'm going to try to work to improve most this month.
I have always tracked all my sessions and kept records, I know HEM does this for me, but it's just become a habit and I like to be able to look through it. What I've done lately are a couple of checks to see what times I'm making the most money at, what times I'm losing the most, how much I've won or lost depending on the length of my sessions, and also how much I've lost from not using a 3 buy in stop loss. Here's what I've found:
February:
Between 10am-2pm +1784
Between 2pm-6pm +2615
Between 10pm-2am -1566
Between 2am-6am +149
So obviously I'm losing the most between 10pm-2am, I probably think that it's just short term variance that I am +149 from 2am-6am because I'm going to assume I'm playing just as badly as I am from 10-2, probably should be playing worse. Since then I've tried to cut down my sessions that go past 10pm, we'll see how I do in accomplishing this goal through March.
February:
1hour sessions -76
1.5-2hour sessions +1515
2.5-4hour sessions +2233
4.5+ hour sessions -2170
So obviously this tells me that the longer I'm playing the worse I'm doing. I think the fact that the 1 hour sessions are -76 has more to do with short term variance because I haven't played that many sessions that last just one hour. What I'd like to do for the rest of March is to try to have no sessions that go over 4 hours unless I'm up a lot, and if a session does go for 4 hours, I need to move my stop loss up to whatever my bankroll is at (i.e. If I've been playing 4 hours, I started with 5000 and now I'm at 6500 at 1/2, I need to reset my stop loss to 5900).
And so far in March, I've gone through and checked how much I've lost by not implementing a stop loss. Basically I went through each session that I lost more than 3 buy ins, and added whatever was additional on top of those 3 buy ins I lost into a total, and I found that I've lost $2163 on top of those sessions. So far for March I'm up 3011 over 86 hours which works out to a 35$ hourly rate, but the crazy thing is, if I add back in that $2163 my hourly almost doubles to 60$. It probably more than doubles since I will be playing fewer hours if I'm actually stop-loss'ing myself at 3 buy ins.
Using the stop loss is something I've never been able to do successfully in the past and it's something I really want to push myself to try to do. The motivation is obviously staring me in the face. I know that in the past I used to play so aggressively that I thought using any kind of stop-loss just didn't make sense because there were many sessions where I started down 3-4 buy ins in the first 20 minutes just because of losing a few flips or running a bluff that didn't work, and I figured my image would pay me back shortly. And it did a decent amount of the time, except for when I wouldn't ever stop, even at -8 or -10 buy ins. Like when I dropped 18 buy ins at 5/10 in like 2.5 hours... Then it also led to sessions where I'd be up 4k then down 6k then even then down 5k then finish up 2k or something like that. That began to happen to me more and more often just before I busted my roll, that's something I just can't allow to happen again and I've got to stay vigilant to avoid it.
One last thing I've done is go through the leak plugging articles that HEM offers. I found three places I felt I could improve:
Currently calling 3bets 37% of the time
Goal - Get it under 30%
Currently folding to flop raises 36% of the time
Goal - Get it above 46%
Currently double barreling 50%
Goal - Get it under 45%
I know this was super long winded, but I'm not writing this for anyone else to read anymore, the purpose is to keep myself on track and to verbalize the things I know I need to work on, because if I don't keep them fresh in my mind, they'll just disappear.
Peter
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PplusAD Germany. Mar 12 2009 21:09. Posts 7182 | | |
hehe u were like the middle Neilly back then. I remeber than one session where u turned 5400FPP into 14K $ within 13 hours ^^
and 2 days later or so u busted it all.
Not as sick as F4zi moneywise but sicker than NeillyAA monewise
^^
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Good Job. Glad you are playing again and doing good. |
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LazyFisH Australia. Mar 12 2009 21:22. Posts 686 | | |
Calling 3bets under 30% is a leak. It's profitable for someone to 3bet you with any two then. |
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k2o4 United States. Mar 12 2009 21:53. Posts 4803 | | |
sounds like you're doing well. I saw you on NL200 the other day and you overall played pretty well. My stats have you playing much more solid poker than your spewy lagtard days too. GL |
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vegable United States. Mar 12 2009 22:40. Posts 2453 | | | |
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| | On March 12 2009 20:22 LazyFisH wrote:
Calling 3bets under 30% is a leak. It's profitable for someone to 3bet you with any two then. |
Whats a good % ? |
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palak United States. Mar 13 2009 00:09. Posts 4601 | | |
| | On March 12 2009 20:22 LazyFisH wrote:
Calling 3bets under 30% is a leak. It's profitable for someone to 3bet you with any two then. |
I call bullshit |
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| dont tap the glass...im about ready to take a fucking hammer to the aquarium | |
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| | On March 12 2009 20:22 LazyFisH wrote:
Calling 3bets under 30% is a leak. It's profitable for someone to 3bet you with any two then. |
generalizing poker to a single statement is also a leak - everyone has to play XXXXX to be correct |
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JoeDeertay United States. Mar 13 2009 01:15. Posts 1730 | | |
Just because he narrowed his 3bet calling range doesn't mean he won't WIDEN HIS 4BET BRUFFINK RANGE!!!!11 |
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palak United States. Mar 13 2009 01:20. Posts 4601 | | |
| | On March 13 2009 00:01 TalentedTom wrote:
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On March 12 2009 20:22 LazyFisH wrote:
Calling 3bets under 30% is a leak. It's profitable for someone to 3bet you with any two then. |
generalizing poker to a single statement is also a leak - everyone has to play XXXXX to be correct
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| dont tap the glass...im about ready to take a fucking hammer to the aquarium | |
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royalsu Canada. Mar 13 2009 02:12. Posts 3233 | | |
how much did you make on that 1k stake? |
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